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Subject: Re: postgres on AIX 3.1.x ???
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 92 20:31:47 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 04 May 92 08:42:50 PDT

you write:

> My understanding is that AIX doesn't support shared memory, so I don't
> know if it is even possible to port postgres.  Any hard information on this?

It is possible, but the Postgres depends rather heavily on shared memory
support and so porting becomes a bit more difficult. I'm not an os guru,
but as I understand it there are ways of getting around this problem.


Jeff Meredith
mer@postgres.berkeley.edu